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My baby is 45 Days Old and her poop is green with some amount of mucous, is it normal?

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I feed her with Similac Advance, I have aldo tried feeding her Nan 1. I tried to feed her upon Doctor's advice Lactose free milk as well upon which she started getting constipation, but the color of the poop was yellow. I reverted back to Similac and i find her discharging green poop like before. The Doctor says that the baby is healthy and i should breast feed her. But i do not generate enough milk for my baby. The baby keeps wimpering most of the times as though she is feeling discomfort. Please Advice.

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green poop and mucus like discharge could also mean your baby is allergic or have a sensitivity to something in the formula such as cow's milk, the protein or sugar. i had to switch my son to nutramigen and he's doing just fine now.

My daughter had green poop with mucus(and tiny streaks of blood), too. She was allergic to cow's milk. I took it out of my diet, and the blood and mucus went away, and her poop changed to a different shade of green, but still green! She is almost 7 months old now, and it is still green, and she grew out of the milk allergy. I tried at 6 months, doc did strip test for blood, came out negative.

I had a similar problem and had to go to a good lactation consultant before I got the answer. For ME, I was producing too much milk, not too little. I did not know this, I thought I had too little milk because my son was wimpering, too, but it turns out he was wimpering because I had so much milk it was choking him and hard for him to eat (like eating from a firehose)> Anyway, his poop was green because he was getting all foremilk (the milk that comes out first that is higher in lactose, aka sugar) and he would fill up before getting any hindmilk (the thick milk that comes out last). Too much lactose makes the milk green, it also means you have to breastfeed the baby more often because hindmilk is more filling. Anyway, I stopped pumping and adjusted my diet to reduce my breast milk and the problem went away. I am not saying you have the same problem I do, but you could. You may want to hire a lactation consultation or contact la leche to help you out.
PS Doc said the green poo was ok

My baby is on NAN HA1 as well. my doctor said it's normal for the poop of babies on NAN to be that green and smelly. Re constipation it's normal for young babies to experience some difficulties since they havent mastered yet the use of their spinchter muscles. My baby's face would turn red before from straining. It's ok as long as their poop is soft

my baby is 4 months old and doing green colored potty since a week and i guess he has lose motions too as after evry feed he excretes.. and he also has cough and cold.. i want to avoid giving medicine.. can anything help beside medicines or syrup?

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